Nagasaki was the first city in Japan to establish links with the west, as early as the 16th century when Portuguese traders and Christian missionaries were visiting Nagasaki and influencing its culture.
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South of Kyushu in Japan is a string of small islands leading to Taiwan. The largest of these is Okinawa, scene of the last battle of WWII.
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In 1814 Napoleon was exiled to the tiny Mediterranean island of Elba and the European political establishment slowly began to forget about him. But the defiant Corsican refused to lie down and in one last throw of the dice he left Elba in late February 1815 and sailed for France to overthrow Louis XVIII.
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Paraguay had strong ties to the Nazi party and was the first country outside Germany to establish its own Nazi party, in 1929. Hohenau, meaning ‘Mother of the Colonies’, was one of the first towns in Paraguay to be settled by German immigrants.
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The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in the Second World War and the only episode of the war that developed in South America.
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